Earlier this summer, on a family vacation to visit some family in Fernandina Beach, Fla., I rediscovered one of my first loves: looking for fossils. It turns out that area is well-known for finding ...

When you think about the extinct creatures that once dominated Earth, you probably imagine towering dinosaurs or trumpeting wooly mammoths. However, during a time in history that would have been ...

When Travis Benda and his sons ventured out on an early December deer hunting trip in southeast Nebraska, they weren’t expecting to find a millennia-old fossil. The group discovered the lower jaw of a ...

Environmental hazards have wreaked havoc on Alachua County creeks for years, but the waterways — for the last few months, at least — now face a new threat. According to the Alachua County ...

ASHLAND, Va. -- Locals refer to Ashland, Virginia as the Center of the Universe. But just a few miles from the old train station downtown, a select few have embarked on a journey to learn more about ...

Explore Florida’s rich fossil beds to find ancient clams hiding beautiful calcite crystal formations inside. This ...

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The Alabama Museum of Natural History hosts fossil hunting events at a privately owned creek a 50-mile drive southwest from the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The hadrosaur tooth was ...